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casting out

casting out is the present participle and gerund of cast out.

Meaning of cast out

Verb

cast out (third-person singular simple present casts out, present participle casting out, simple past and past participle cast out)

  1. (transitive) To drive out; to expel.
    • Hudson personally would not face the music at that meeting and the business could hardly proceed for groans and hisses and cries of "Hudson! Hudson! Why is Hudson not here?" and so the ungrateful shareholders to whom Hudson had generously paid dividends out of their own capital cast out Hudson bag...1941 December, Kenneth Brown, “The Newmarket & Chesterford Railway—II”, in Railway Magazine, page 533

Questions about casting out

What is casting out the present participle and gerund of?
Casting out is the present participle and gerund of cast out.

Words near casting out in the dictionary

  1. casting one's mind back
  2. casting one's net far and wide
  3. casting one's net wide
  4. casting one's net wider
  5. casting one's vote
  6. casting out
  7. casting out the Devil with Beelzebub
  8. casting over
  9. casting round
  10. casting snowballs
  11. casting someone's water

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